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Chicago examiner vol xvi no b a m c * * sunday price five cents j sunday Chicago august 22 1915 italy declares war on turkey latins to anjuueo attack on galupoli sultan is charged with refusing to remove restrictions from italians seeking to return to native land embassies are notified of action against constantinople 150 000 soldiers ready to assist in dardanelles by international news service rome aug 21 italy to-day de clared war against turkey official announcement to this effect was made to-night the grounds given for the declara tion were turkey's support of the revolt in libya and the porte's re fusal to accede to the italian de mands that italian residents of syria be permitted to leave turkey without restriction porte fails to reply an ultimatum demanding that turkey reverse her position on these two questions had been sent to the porte a time limit for an answer was set the time limit having expired to day and no reply having been mads by the turkish government the italian ambassador to constanti nople marquis dl garronl complied with previous instructions and pre sented to the porte italy's declarar tion of war simultaneously he asked for his passports he left constantinople to-night the turkish ambassador to rome will depart to morrow join dardanelles fight it is generally conceded here that italy will join the allies immediately in their operations in the darda nelles reports are that 150,000 men ara held in readiness to aid the franco british land forces on gallipoll while a strong squadron of fast ital ian cruisers has been mobilized at taranto italy to sail at a moment's notice embassies are notified the government has sent to all embassies and consulates in foreign countries a circular defining the is sues with turkey it concludes in view of these obvious infrac tions of categorical promises mads following upon our ultimatum erf august 3 provoked by evasions of the ottoman government particular ly with regard to the free departure of italian subjects from asia minor the italian government has sent in structions to its ambassador at constantinople to declare war upon turkey gompers suspends 100,000 hebrews members of 36 insurgent labor unions are ousted from fed eration for refusing to expel i amalgamated clothing workers j i insurrectionists are accused of attempting to inject social ism into parent body in defi ance of mandate of president by international news service new york aug 21 one hun dred thousand members of thirty-six hebrew labor unions which refused to obey the mandate of samuel gompers president of the american federation of labor to expel the amalgamated clothing workers of america were suspended to-day by the central federated union this action taken by gompers order was a result he said of an at tempt of east side labor leaders act ing through the clothing workers to imbue the federation with socialism according to gompers the activity of socialist leaders became so in tense as to assume the appearance of a rebellion within the federation and to threaten seriously the welfare of that organization de.m ml ations defied gompers always has been opposed to the domination of federation coun cils by socialists or to any union in the federation going on record di rectly or otherwise as favoring so cialism open agitation of their propaganda fcy east side labor leaders among the members of the hebrew labor talons he has long regarded as a menace to be crushed but his de nunciations it is said have been met with defiance the most influential of the social ists with whom he has had to deal re said to be natives of russia who in their own country were ex ponents of nihilism on motion of herman grossman f the cloakmakers union and a del egate to the central federated union it was agreed to-day to give the he brew unions a chance to return to the fold by their members agreeing to expel the socialists the cloak makers union is among those ex pelled federation backs chief gompers action is said to have the trong support of the rank and file of the american federation through out the country and also of the cen tral federated union this was in dicated by the prompt action taken by that body to-day the suspension was the chief topic of conversation among federation members here to-day opinion dif fering whether the hebrew organiza tions would take advantage of the chance offered them to repudiate t insurrectionists and thus regain standing it is expected that powerful ef forts will be made by leaders of the socialistic element among them abraham cohan an east side resi dent said to be prominent to in duce the hebrew unions to stand pat a formal declaration of secession from the american feder-u'or and the formation of a rival federation avowedly socialistic is considered not unlikely cholera outbreak in germany is reported ly international news service madrid aug 21 â€” according to an nicial announcement cholera has token out in germany in the dis icts of oppeln wiesbaden breslau iesla berlin and frankfurt riga fa fe-trograd also are afflicted it is arabic not convoyed says great britain didn't try to escape is official statement london avers no warning was given slowed down to aid torpedoed dunsley , berlin saturday via lon don sunday aug 22 1:35 a m â€” no statement is ob tainable in official quarters regarding the sinking of the arabic the tendency how ever seems to be to consider the question without excite ment the press thus far has avoided comment of any na ture by international news service london aug 21 â€” the white star liner arabic was not being con voyed when she was torpedoed by a german submarine thursday accord ing to an official statement issued by the foreign office to-night based upon statements of captain finch and other survivors the foreign of fice let it be known that the govern ment is satisfied the arabic did not attempt to escape or to ram the sub marine which sent her to the bot tom in pursuance of instructions from the state department at washing ton the american consulate is pro curing affidavits from american sur vivors with the object primarily of determining whether warning was given affidavits thus far agree that the submarine was not even sighted | before the torpedo was fired and that | the arabic far from attempting to escape or run down the undersea hunter actually had slowed down for the purpose ot giving assistance to > the british steamship dunsley which already had been torpedoed american is quoted james calmon an american citizen and a survivor said to-night the arabic was torpedoed abso lutely without warning and had no opportunity to ram the submarine even if captain finch had wanted to because her officers did not see it further checking of all lists of americans on the sunicen liner has failed to change the official conclu â– sion that the only two americans lost were mrs josephine l bruguiere and dr edmund t woods it was re ported during the day that the body of mrs bruguiere had been recovered the report was based on a partial identification of the body of a woman found in a drifting lifeboat late to , night positive identification ot the i body as that of mrs eaton of bol ton lancashire was made by one of i the a'.-abic's passengers finch gets rake praise following the decision of the coro | ner that no inquest will be necessary captain finch who was remaining at queenstown to give evidence left , for liverpool to-night the white star line to-day tele graphed to captain finch an expres sion of its profound admiration of the excellent discipline and exemplary conduct of all concerned which result ed in minimizing what under other circumstances might have proved an infinitely greater calamity twenty of the arabic lifeboats and collapsible rafts were recovered to day sixty miles southwest of hochas point trawlers are searching for bodies but conditions of wind and tide made their chances of success re mote conflicting reports leave united states officials in state of nervous indecision by international news service london aug 21 â€” ambassa dor page cabled a report to washington to-day giving the details of the sinking of the arabic and making the point that from statements communicated to him the submarine fired its torpedo without giving the slightest warning that is the ambassador's official report based upon all the information i available by international news service washington aug 21 while the administration investigated cer tain discrepancies in accounts of the sinking of the arabic the receipt of surprisingly meager reports of the details of the disaster left officials ; here to-day in a state of nervous in 1 decision i official advices so far received to day tell nothing except that only two americans are missing they are mrs josephine bruguiere of new : york and dr edmund f woods of ' janesville wis the secretary of state denied early ' to-night that he had received a long cable from ambassador gerard con cerning the arabic the ambassador i at berlin it was stated has not yet i been asked to make a report or take up the question with germany ear lier in the day it was said at the state department that the ambassa t dor at berlin probably would receive instructions later but the impression left was that nothing was to be said to germany until the administration is sure of its facts , action awaits reports the administration is sure of â– but few facts and the position of this government is yet to be shaped there was no letup in the tens on in official circles this was shown by a long conference this afternoon between president wilson and sec j retary lansing the latter carrying to : the white house what information the state department has in its pos : session it was after this conference that it became known that discrep ancies in the reports of the arabic's destruction have added to the per plexities of the situation one of these discrepancies is said ; to be shown by the statement in the affidavit of zellah covington an j american survivor that the arabic j had cl anged her course when the i submarine struck the vessel this j might indicate that the arabic was | proceeding to the relief of the steam er dunsley which had been torpedoed in the vicinity by a german submarine i only a few minutes previously course changed i noticed the arabic had changed : her course and the torpedo would i either miss or strike well astern j says the covington affidavit which i was cabled to the state department i from queenstown last night this is confusing when compared j with the declaration of captain i finch the ship's commander said he learned of the presence of a sub i marine only when he saw the tor , pedo the conflict indirectly raised by | these two statements is such that the | american embassy has been asked j to clear it up and further affidavits i are anxiously awaited by officials | here this government is still without j official report concerning the vital question of whether the arabic was convoyed by british warships at tho time of the attack or had been con voyed through parts of the war zone press dispatches from london say the arabic was not convoyed at the i time of the attack and this assertion j is made with the approval of the admiralty it is hardly to be expected that ger many will disavow the act of her submarine commander the s'-.jatton then turns on what justification if any germany may plead for an at tack without warning on a merchant man with americans aboard several die and town is flooded in a cloudburst i wires to shippensburg pa are down and details lacking heavy crop damage 1 by international news service hagerstown md aug 21 a cloudburst inundated shippensburg pa a town of 4,000 population to night telephone and telegraph wires are down and details are lacking but reports late to-night said the streets were under three feet of water and several persons had been drowned the tracks of the western mary land railroad were washed out and traffic tied up the storm swept through southern pennsylvania do ing heavy damage to crops fair and warmer promise to Chicago pair and warmer to-day with gen tle variable winds the weather man gives his word the storm is pasr and that the warm sunshine will be here to-day chieago got only the edge of the storm that swept over the caribbean sea the texas coast flooded st louis and defintihed indi ana with rain the weather man confesses that this has so far been the coldest wettest most sunless august in twenty-five years but he hopes to mend his ways now many pay court to eugenia kelly by international news service mackinac island mich aug 21 â€” miss eugenia kelly at the grand hotel with her mother is drawing to the hotel's baliroom many of the youths at this resort miss kelly is the daughter for whose arrest mrs edward kelly was compelled to ap peal to the new york police last may to separate her from acquain tances in new york's white way among them al davis a broadway dancer bryan dodges arabic disaster in lecture by international news service champaign 111 aug 21 w j bryan delivered his address on a causeless war here this afternoon he did not touch on the arabic dis aster cancels shell contract by international news service omaha neb aug 21 â€” mrs e h harrison has ordered the mckeen mo tor shops which she owns not to make shrapnel for european nations the mckeen shops had made con tracts which would require night and day forces for two years missing man found taken to explain shortages examiner wire clears mystery of disappearance in auto of a j rechnitzer that baffled police confronted with 29,000 deficit charge goes to kansas city to clear tangle doesn't tell wife Chicago detectives still were grop ing early this morning in the maze of the rechnitzer mystery testing every theory from suicide to kidnap ing for ransom the case was at once baffling and astonishing al r most incredible but strange as was the problem stranger still is the so lution which the examiner has found alexander j rechnitzer came to Chicago from kansas city less than two months ago the date was july 2 he brought with him his wife and his two daughters â€” and his automobile the automobile a costly touring car was rechnitzer's particular joy next to his family it was his dearest possession it was his only interest thai could take him away from his home and almost invariably when he went motoring his wife and children were with nim these facts the chi cago police carefully noted because they looked like essential facts disappeared thursday the rechnitzer home was at 583 prairie avenue a comfortable apart ment well furnished but not an ex travagant home on last thursday evening immediately after dinner rechnitzer proposed a ride while his wife was dressing herself and the children for the outing rechnitzer himself went to the garage at sixty first street and south park avenue to get the car he returned in the machine and picked up his family it was 10:30 when the ride was finished mrs rechnitzer thirteen-year-old hortense and seven-year-old sylvia got out in front of the appartment i'll be back as soon as 1 put the car away rechnitzer said but he did not come back that is the problem as it came to the police at first the latter were inclined to take a perfunctory view of the situation rechnitzer was a missing person one of many missing where's dunne some say here and others there late train causes confusion and the governor's whereabouts is unknown now what d'ye suppose has be come of governor dunne at the ex ecutive mansion in springfield tliey declare he is in Chicago but ac i cording to personal friends who rode on the train and others who met the train he was said to have taken gov ernor dunne did not come on that train the red train of the Chicago & alton stops at springfield on its i way to Chicago at 2:45 each day yesterday the train was reported more than two hours late and the governor told his Chicago friends ; that he had time to finish his work and catch the train and meet them here for a conference but the train made up more than an hour of the lost time and the governor â€” appar | ently â€” missed it everybody on the train declares | that no governor rode on it but late at night when he failed to ar rive and springfield was asked when he was coming everybody at the ex ecutive mansion declared he did catch the red train and did come to Chicago now where is he is the governor lost lindsey's brother is arrested as a thief by international news service denver colo aug 21 â€” tunstal lindsey brother of juvenile judge ben b lindsey was arrested to-day charged with having tried to rob the cash register of a cigar store here lindsey was booked at tom law rence he was arrested after a chase he is thirty years old married and a city health department inspector d'annunzio joins crew of submarine by international news service turin aug 21 â€” a dispatch from venice relates that gabrielle d'anun zio's latest exploit is participation with the crew of a submarine in a search for austrian battleships in the adriatic which it was the sub marine's purpose to attack the poet was most enthusiastic in describing his sensations during the adventure mme.gluck has baby gives up 150,000 by international news service new york aug 21 mme alma gluck opera singer gave birth to a baby daughter to-day because of her desire to rear her child person ally mme gluck has cancelled a sea son's contracts approximating 150 000 she and her husband efram zimbalist violinist are at lake george reichstag votes billions war loan bv international news service berlin aug 21 the reichstag voted a third war loan of ten billion marks 2,500,000,000 early to-day after an all-night session this in creases to 30.000,000,000 marks 7 500,000,000 the total war credits voted by the reichstag for the war u s weather forecast Chicago and vicinity fair sunday and probably monday alight ly warmer sunday gentle northwest wlndx becoming variable tkmi'ehatl'ite for 24 hours endtnff at 7 p m yesterday highest to lonrext 63 mean 116 normal temperature for the day 71 kicesa of temiÂ»erature since january 1 3ui precipitation total for twenty-four hours end ing it 7 p m 0:48 excess of precipitation since ja-nuary 1 4-3 4 relative humidity 7 a m 83 2 p nr 74 7 p m , tift barometric pressure reduced to sea level 7 a m 2ms7 7p m 2861 sunise to-day r>:os sunset today 00 ilje>i-al weather table will be found on i â– i n't three russ ships sunk by germans in riga gulf i three teuton torpedo boats strike mines fleet is re ported bombarding riga city 200 slav sailors are killed in the engagement czar's ar mada withdraws from action j i by international news service i petrograd aug 21 t is j officially announced that a british submarine has successfully tor pedoed a german cruiser in the baltic | by international news service berlin aug 81 two russian , gunboats and one russian tor j pedo boat were destroyed and i two other russian torpedo boats seri 1 i ously damaged and three german tor j pedo boats were damaged by mines one of them being sunk another j beached and one reached port safely in a naval battle between the ger i man and russian fleets in the gulf 1 of riga it is officially announced by the admiralty this afternoon | russ sailors die ; it is believed over 200 of the crews lof the russian gunboats lost their | i lives forty of the crews were res j cued the german casualties were small the battle occurred thurs i day in the baltic the russian gunboats destroyed ' were the seiwutsch and the korejetz each carried a crew of 140 men they were vessels ot 875 tons and their armament consisted of two 4.7-inch i guns and four 3-inch guns the official german announcement concerning the naval battle follows our naval forces in the baltic ! penetrated the gulf of riga after making a passage through mine fields this task required several days during the preliminary fighting the russian torpedo boat emir buch arsky was destroyed other russian torpedo boats in cluding the narwlck and a much . large ship were seriously damaged during the russian retreat on the evening of august 19 the russian gunboats seiwutsch i and korejetz were destroyed after i bravely resisting the gun fire of our torpedo attack fleet bombards riga a stockholm dispatch reports that the german baltic fleet has defeated the russian fleet and is now bom barding riga itself the only official russian information regarding the encounter is contained in a statement of the russian admiralty issued last night saying strong forces of the german fleet i have penetrated the gulf of riga and | fighting with our ships continues | the russky invalid of petrograd says that several small russian ships were inside the gulf when the ger mans entered but it states that no j large russian ships were bottled up in the gulf this s in contradiction i of reports from copenhagen that sev eral important units of the russian fleet had been bottled up in the gulf by the germans who had orders to destroy them in order to make possi i ble the landing of troops at riga or i on the finnish coast bobo says u.s wants haiti as canal guard by international news service san juan p k aug 21 j onn*r president bono of haiti has arrived here in an interview to-day he re ferred to american action in haiti as follows the united states wants to i control haiti because of its proxim ity of the panama canal jtr bobo . hi to steamer lapland is safe in port by international news sfrvice liverpool aug 21 the red star liner lapland with thirteen american passengers on board and for which apprehension had been felt arrived safely to-day reports were circulated on friday that the lapland had been torpedoed by a german sub marine kahn gives 1,000 to aid french actors by international news service paris aug 1 - ottc hn n.-w york banker has sent j.^oo to the prefect ajagcolice for tÂ«vreii-;f of uii&muav am a^hw senator shively is ill south bend and auy 1 â€” senauir i hen f shhely of jt msi home of his parents ir brookv^bÃŸ pa k is ret/orted to hare exfl < enced a recurrence <-<^| fl turkey ignored complaints of italy friction between turkey and italy has been in evidence since shortly after the lattor's entry into the w;ir early in lime there were reports that italian consuls were slowly leaving turkey and that amerlcaa officials were taking over the task of looking out for italian interests later charges were made that th ottoman government was preventing these consuls from leaving and that similar coercion was being exerted over italian civilians who wlsbod to quit turkish soil askeii v s aid mmt^^uly 20 advj.es cnnt from komaj khe covernimfi.l j b a note to hie ijrilttd slat^h to use i pj pillar j^jj tlm uuim^hÃŸ continued on 4th page 4th column extra you expect a lot of things in an apartment all the modern devices that make house keeping easy â€” windows aplenty for fresh air j and sunshine â€” a good neighborhood and good transportation all these desirable 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Chicago examiner vol xvi no b a m c * * sunday price five cents j sunday Chicago august 22 1915 italy declares war on turkey latins to anjuueo attack on galupoli sultan is charged with refusing to remove restrictions from italians seeking to return to native land embassies are notified of action against constantinople 150 000 soldiers ready to assist in dardanelles by international news service rome aug 21 italy to-day de clared war against turkey official announcement to this effect was made to-night the grounds given for the declara tion were turkey's support of the revolt in libya and the porte's re fusal to accede to the italian de mands that italian residents of syria be permitted to leave turkey without restriction porte fails to reply an ultimatum demanding that turkey reverse her position on these two questions had been sent to the porte a time limit for an answer was set the time limit having expired to day and no reply having been mads by the turkish government the italian ambassador to constanti nople marquis dl garronl complied with previous instructions and pre sented to the porte italy's declarar tion of war simultaneously he asked for his passports he left constantinople to-night the turkish ambassador to rome will depart to morrow join dardanelles fight it is generally conceded here that italy will join the allies immediately in their operations in the darda nelles reports are that 150,000 men ara held in readiness to aid the franco british land forces on gallipoll while a strong squadron of fast ital ian cruisers has been mobilized at taranto italy to sail at a moment's notice embassies are notified the government has sent to all embassies and consulates in foreign countries a circular defining the is sues with turkey it concludes in view of these obvious infrac tions of categorical promises mads following upon our ultimatum erf august 3 provoked by evasions of the ottoman government particular ly with regard to the free departure of italian subjects from asia minor the italian government has sent in structions to its ambassador at constantinople to declare war upon turkey gompers suspends 100,000 hebrews members of 36 insurgent labor unions are ousted from fed eration for refusing to expel i amalgamated clothing workers j i insurrectionists are accused of attempting to inject social ism into parent body in defi ance of mandate of president by international news service new york aug 21 one hun dred thousand members of thirty-six hebrew labor unions which refused to obey the mandate of samuel gompers president of the american federation of labor to expel the amalgamated clothing workers of america were suspended to-day by the central federated union this action taken by gompers order was a result he said of an at tempt of east side labor leaders act ing through the clothing workers to imbue the federation with socialism according to gompers the activity of socialist leaders became so in tense as to assume the appearance of a rebellion within the federation and to threaten seriously the welfare of that organization de.m ml ations defied gompers always has been opposed to the domination of federation coun cils by socialists or to any union in the federation going on record di rectly or otherwise as favoring so cialism open agitation of their propaganda fcy east side labor leaders among the members of the hebrew labor talons he has long regarded as a menace to be crushed but his de nunciations it is said have been met with defiance the most influential of the social ists with whom he has had to deal re said to be natives of russia who in their own country were ex ponents of nihilism on motion of herman grossman f the cloakmakers union and a del egate to the central federated union it was agreed to-day to give the he brew unions a chance to return to the fold by their members agreeing to expel the socialists the cloak makers union is among those ex pelled federation backs chief gompers action is said to have the trong support of the rank and file of the american federation through out the country and also of the cen tral federated union this was in dicated by the prompt action taken by that body to-day the suspension was the chief topic of conversation among federation members here to-day opinion dif fering whether the hebrew organiza tions would take advantage of the chance offered them to repudiate t insurrectionists and thus regain standing it is expected that powerful ef forts will be made by leaders of the socialistic element among them abraham cohan an east side resi dent said to be prominent to in duce the hebrew unions to stand pat a formal declaration of secession from the american feder-u'or and the formation of a rival federation avowedly socialistic is considered not unlikely cholera outbreak in germany is reported ly international news service madrid aug 21 â€” according to an nicial announcement cholera has token out in germany in the dis icts of oppeln wiesbaden breslau iesla berlin and frankfurt riga fa fe-trograd also are afflicted it is arabic not convoyed says great britain didn't try to escape is official statement london avers no warning was given slowed down to aid torpedoed dunsley , berlin saturday via lon don sunday aug 22 1:35 a m â€” no statement is ob tainable in official quarters regarding the sinking of the arabic the tendency how ever seems to be to consider the question without excite ment the press thus far has avoided comment of any na ture by international news service london aug 21 â€” the white star liner arabic was not being con voyed when she was torpedoed by a german submarine thursday accord ing to an official statement issued by the foreign office to-night based upon statements of captain finch and other survivors the foreign of fice let it be known that the govern ment is satisfied the arabic did not attempt to escape or to ram the sub marine which sent her to the bot tom in pursuance of instructions from the state department at washing ton the american consulate is pro curing affidavits from american sur vivors with the object primarily of determining whether warning was given affidavits thus far agree that the submarine was not even sighted | before the torpedo was fired and that | the arabic far from attempting to escape or run down the undersea hunter actually had slowed down for the purpose ot giving assistance to > the british steamship dunsley which already had been torpedoed american is quoted james calmon an american citizen and a survivor said to-night the arabic was torpedoed abso lutely without warning and had no opportunity to ram the submarine even if captain finch had wanted to because her officers did not see it further checking of all lists of americans on the sunicen liner has failed to change the official conclu â– sion that the only two americans lost were mrs josephine l bruguiere and dr edmund t woods it was re ported during the day that the body of mrs bruguiere had been recovered the report was based on a partial identification of the body of a woman found in a drifting lifeboat late to , night positive identification ot the i body as that of mrs eaton of bol ton lancashire was made by one of i the a'.-abic's passengers finch gets rake praise following the decision of the coro | ner that no inquest will be necessary captain finch who was remaining at queenstown to give evidence left , for liverpool to-night the white star line to-day tele graphed to captain finch an expres sion of its profound admiration of the excellent discipline and exemplary conduct of all concerned which result ed in minimizing what under other circumstances might have proved an infinitely greater calamity twenty of the arabic lifeboats and collapsible rafts were recovered to day sixty miles southwest of hochas point trawlers are searching for bodies but conditions of wind and tide made their chances of success re mote conflicting reports leave united states officials in state of nervous indecision by international news service london aug 21 â€” ambassa dor page cabled a report to washington to-day giving the details of the sinking of the arabic and making the point that from statements communicated to him the submarine fired its torpedo without giving the slightest warning that is the ambassador's official report based upon all the information i available by international news service washington aug 21 while the administration investigated cer tain discrepancies in accounts of the sinking of the arabic the receipt of surprisingly meager reports of the details of the disaster left officials ; here to-day in a state of nervous in 1 decision i official advices so far received to day tell nothing except that only two americans are missing they are mrs josephine bruguiere of new : york and dr edmund f woods of ' janesville wis the secretary of state denied early ' to-night that he had received a long cable from ambassador gerard con cerning the arabic the ambassador i at berlin it was stated has not yet i been asked to make a report or take up the question with germany ear lier in the day it was said at the state department that the ambassa t dor at berlin probably would receive instructions later but the impression left was that nothing was to be said to germany until the administration is sure of its facts , action awaits reports the administration is sure of â– but few facts and the position of this government is yet to be shaped there was no letup in the tens on in official circles this was shown by a long conference this afternoon between president wilson and sec j retary lansing the latter carrying to : the white house what information the state department has in its pos : session it was after this conference that it became known that discrep ancies in the reports of the arabic's destruction have added to the per plexities of the situation one of these discrepancies is said ; to be shown by the statement in the affidavit of zellah covington an j american survivor that the arabic j had cl anged her course when the i submarine struck the vessel this j might indicate that the arabic was | proceeding to the relief of the steam er dunsley which had been torpedoed in the vicinity by a german submarine i only a few minutes previously course changed i noticed the arabic had changed : her course and the torpedo would i either miss or strike well astern j says the covington affidavit which i was cabled to the state department i from queenstown last night this is confusing when compared j with the declaration of captain i finch the ship's commander said he learned of the presence of a sub i marine only when he saw the tor , pedo the conflict indirectly raised by | these two statements is such that the | american embassy has been asked j to clear it up and further affidavits i are anxiously awaited by officials | here this government is still without j official report concerning the vital question of whether the arabic was convoyed by british warships at tho time of the attack or had been con voyed through parts of the war zone press dispatches from london say the arabic was not convoyed at the i time of the attack and this assertion j is made with the approval of the admiralty it is hardly to be expected that ger many will disavow the act of her submarine commander the s'-.jatton then turns on what justification if any germany may plead for an at tack without warning on a merchant man with americans aboard several die and town is flooded in a cloudburst i wires to shippensburg pa are down and details lacking heavy crop damage 1 by international news service hagerstown md aug 21 a cloudburst inundated shippensburg pa a town of 4,000 population to night telephone and telegraph wires are down and details are lacking but reports late to-night said the streets were under three feet of water and several persons had been drowned the tracks of the western mary land railroad were washed out and traffic tied up the storm swept through southern pennsylvania do ing heavy damage to crops fair and warmer promise to Chicago pair and warmer to-day with gen tle variable winds the weather man gives his word the storm is pasr and that the warm sunshine will be here to-day chieago got only the edge of the storm that swept over the caribbean sea the texas coast flooded st louis and defintihed indi ana with rain the weather man confesses that this has so far been the coldest wettest most sunless august in twenty-five years but he hopes to mend his ways now many pay court to eugenia kelly by international news service mackinac island mich aug 21 â€” miss eugenia kelly at the grand hotel with her mother is drawing to the hotel's baliroom many of the youths at this resort miss kelly is the daughter for whose arrest mrs edward kelly was compelled to ap peal to the new york police last may to separate her from acquain tances in new york's white way among them al davis a broadway dancer bryan dodges arabic disaster in lecture by international news service champaign 111 aug 21 w j bryan delivered his address on a causeless war here this afternoon he did not touch on the arabic dis aster cancels shell contract by international news service omaha neb aug 21 â€” mrs e h harrison has ordered the mckeen mo tor shops which she owns not to make shrapnel for european nations the mckeen shops had made con tracts which would require night and day forces for two years missing man found taken to explain shortages examiner wire clears mystery of disappearance in auto of a j rechnitzer that baffled police confronted with 29,000 deficit charge goes to kansas city to clear tangle doesn't tell wife Chicago detectives still were grop ing early this morning in the maze of the rechnitzer mystery testing every theory from suicide to kidnap ing for ransom the case was at once baffling and astonishing al r most incredible but strange as was the problem stranger still is the so lution which the examiner has found alexander j rechnitzer came to Chicago from kansas city less than two months ago the date was july 2 he brought with him his wife and his two daughters â€” and his automobile the automobile a costly touring car was rechnitzer's particular joy next to his family it was his dearest possession it was his only interest thai could take him away from his home and almost invariably when he went motoring his wife and children were with nim these facts the chi cago police carefully noted because they looked like essential facts disappeared thursday the rechnitzer home was at 583 prairie avenue a comfortable apart ment well furnished but not an ex travagant home on last thursday evening immediately after dinner rechnitzer proposed a ride while his wife was dressing herself and the children for the outing rechnitzer himself went to the garage at sixty first street and south park avenue to get the car he returned in the machine and picked up his family it was 10:30 when the ride was finished mrs rechnitzer thirteen-year-old hortense and seven-year-old sylvia got out in front of the appartment i'll be back as soon as 1 put the car away rechnitzer said but he did not come back that is the problem as it came to the police at first the latter were inclined to take a perfunctory view of the situation rechnitzer was a missing person one of many missing where's dunne some say here and others there late train causes confusion and the governor's whereabouts is unknown now what d'ye suppose has be come of governor dunne at the ex ecutive mansion in springfield tliey declare he is in Chicago but ac i cording to personal friends who rode on the train and others who met the train he was said to have taken gov ernor dunne did not come on that train the red train of the Chicago & alton stops at springfield on its i way to Chicago at 2:45 each day yesterday the train was reported more than two hours late and the governor told his Chicago friends ; that he had time to finish his work and catch the train and meet them here for a conference but the train made up more than an hour of the lost time and the governor â€” appar | ently â€” missed it everybody on the train declares | that no governor rode on it but late at night when he failed to ar rive and springfield was asked when he was coming everybody at the ex ecutive mansion declared he did catch the red train and did come to Chicago now where is he is the governor lost lindsey's brother is arrested as a thief by international news service denver colo aug 21 â€” tunstal lindsey brother of juvenile judge ben b lindsey was arrested to-day charged with having tried to rob the cash register of a cigar store here lindsey was booked at tom law rence he was arrested after a chase he is thirty years old married and a city health department inspector d'annunzio joins crew of submarine by international news service turin aug 21 â€” a dispatch from venice relates that gabrielle d'anun zio's latest exploit is participation with the crew of a submarine in a search for austrian battleships in the adriatic which it was the sub marine's purpose to attack the poet was most enthusiastic in describing his sensations during the adventure mme.gluck has baby gives up 150,000 by international news service new york aug 21 mme alma gluck opera singer gave birth to a baby daughter to-day because of her desire to rear her child person ally mme gluck has cancelled a sea son's contracts approximating 150 000 she and her husband efram zimbalist violinist are at lake george reichstag votes billions war loan bv international news service berlin aug 21 the reichstag voted a third war loan of ten billion marks 2,500,000,000 early to-day after an all-night session this in creases to 30.000,000,000 marks 7 500,000,000 the total war credits voted by the reichstag for the war u s weather forecast Chicago and vicinity fair sunday and probably monday alight ly warmer sunday gentle northwest wlndx becoming variable tkmi'ehatl'ite for 24 hours endtnff at 7 p m yesterday highest to lonrext 63 mean 116 normal temperature for the day 71 kicesa of temiÂ»erature since january 1 3ui precipitation total for twenty-four hours end ing it 7 p m 0:48 excess of precipitation since ja-nuary 1 4-3 4 relative humidity 7 a m 83 2 p nr 74 7 p m , tift barometric pressure reduced to sea level 7 a m 2ms7 7p m 2861 sunise to-day r>:os sunset today 00 ilje>i-al weather table will be found on i â– i n't three russ ships sunk by germans in riga gulf i three teuton torpedo boats strike mines fleet is re ported bombarding riga city 200 slav sailors are killed in the engagement czar's ar mada withdraws from action j i by international news service i petrograd aug 21 t is j officially announced that a british submarine has successfully tor pedoed a german cruiser in the baltic | by international news service berlin aug 81 two russian , gunboats and one russian tor j pedo boat were destroyed and i two other russian torpedo boats seri 1 i ously damaged and three german tor j pedo boats were damaged by mines one of them being sunk another j beached and one reached port safely in a naval battle between the ger i man and russian fleets in the gulf 1 of riga it is officially announced by the admiralty this afternoon | russ sailors die ; it is believed over 200 of the crews lof the russian gunboats lost their | i lives forty of the crews were res j cued the german casualties were small the battle occurred thurs i day in the baltic the russian gunboats destroyed ' were the seiwutsch and the korejetz each carried a crew of 140 men they were vessels ot 875 tons and their armament consisted of two 4.7-inch i guns and four 3-inch guns the official german announcement concerning the naval battle follows our naval forces in the baltic ! penetrated the gulf of riga after making a passage through mine fields this task required several days during the preliminary fighting the russian torpedo boat emir buch arsky was destroyed other russian torpedo boats in cluding the narwlck and a much . large ship were seriously damaged during the russian retreat on the evening of august 19 the russian gunboats seiwutsch i and korejetz were destroyed after i bravely resisting the gun fire of our torpedo attack fleet bombards riga a stockholm dispatch reports that the german baltic fleet has defeated the russian fleet and is now bom barding riga itself the only official russian information regarding the encounter is contained in a statement of the russian admiralty issued last night saying strong forces of the german fleet i have penetrated the gulf of riga and | fighting with our ships continues | the russky invalid of petrograd says that several small russian ships were inside the gulf when the ger mans entered but it states that no j large russian ships were bottled up in the gulf this s in contradiction i of reports from copenhagen that sev eral important units of the russian fleet had been bottled up in the gulf by the germans who had orders to destroy them in order to make possi i ble the landing of troops at riga or i on the finnish coast bobo says u.s wants haiti as canal guard by international news service san juan p k aug 21 j onn*r president bono of haiti has arrived here in an interview to-day he re ferred to american action in haiti as follows the united states wants to i control haiti because of its proxim ity of the panama canal jtr bobo . hi to steamer lapland is safe in port by international news sfrvice liverpool aug 21 the red star liner lapland with thirteen american passengers on board and for which apprehension had been felt arrived safely to-day reports were circulated on friday that the lapland had been torpedoed by a german sub marine kahn gives 1,000 to aid french actors by international news service paris aug 1 - ottc hn n.-w york banker has sent j.^oo to the prefect ajagcolice for tÂ«vreii-;f of uii&muav am a^hw senator shively is ill south bend and auy 1 â€” senauir i hen f shhely of jt msi home of his parents ir brookv^bÃŸ pa k is ret/orted to hare exfl < enced a recurrence